(March 25, 2015 at 9:57 pm)watchamadoodle Wrote: Is blind faith actually possible? IMO, Christians have faith for bad reasons, but they do not have blind faith. Nobody can simply choose to have blind faith as many Christians claim.Faith for "bad reasons" can be blind faith. Why did I believe in god for so many years? Because I'd been told god existed, by people being completely earnest. And I grew up in an environment where belief in god was common and normal, even among those who did not live their lives in conformity with religious morals. Thus, believing that god exists becomes perfectly natural. And if you begin to doubt, you risk being ostracized by your peers and your family and possibly your community and society. Due to how our minds work, it's quite easy to believe something that isn't true.
Thus, the faith in god that guides the life of such a person is a blind faith. You are placing faith in something that has not and cannot be verified. And you are only ever taking anyone else's word for it.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
